Monday, July 02, 2018

If only...if only I weren't so constantly beguiled by the shiny and new books dangled above me like a mobile over a baby's crib, perhaps I would have made more progress on this resolution list.

Actually, I'm surprised that I've read or made attempts at 20 of them. Almost 21, when I finally finish the gargantuan The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. I. These efforts are highlighted in red.

I'm feeling ambitious once again, but to say that I'm going to hunker down and blow through this list while ignoring everything else would be foolish. Still, I'm wondering: Just how much of a dent I can put into the 100 before December 31? My bookworm blood is fairly singing.

I'll do another check-in at the end of September.

1.Caroline: Little House Revisited - Sarah Miller (fiction)

2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (fiction)

3. Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi (nonfiction)

4. Songs for the Missing - Stewart O'Nan (fiction)

5.The Cooler King- Patrick Bishop (nonfiction)I

6. Ride the Pink Horse - Dorothy B. Hughes (fiction)

7. Pachinko- Min Jin Lee (fiction)

8. Our Souls at Night- Kent Haruf (fiction)

9. The Witches - Stacy Schiff (nonfiction)

10. The Great Influenza - John M. Barry (nonfiction)

11. The Nix- Nathan Hill (fiction)

12. Unfamiliar Fishes - Sarah Vowell (nonfiction)

13. Drama - John Lithgow (nonfiction)

14. I'll Be Right There - Kyung-Sook Shin (fiction)

15. The Aquariums of Pyongyang - Kang Chol-Hwan (nonfiction)

16. Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain (nonfiction)

17. Gilligan's Wake - Tom Carson (fiction)

18.Vein of Iron - Ellen Glasgow (fiction) DNF almost right out of the gate. The writing style jarred. It seemed cloying and overly dramatic.

96.Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell - David Yaffe (nonfiction) DNF. Found the book overwritten which seemed to distance the reader from the subject. I wish that JM had written her own memoir.